LETTER: Use private sector skills to boost health delivery
Alternatives to NHI are needed because conditions in SA make the government’s plan unworkable
28 August 2019 - 05:00
I thought Stuart Theobald (“Universal health care can be successful but conditions in SA make that unlikely (../bd/opinion/columnists/2019-08-19-stuart-theobald-unequal-access-to-health-care-must-change-but-lets-also-face-reality/)”, August 19) really nailed the National Health Insurance (NHI) question.
It is a laudable aim as illustrated by President Cyril Ramaphosa talking about the Swedish prime minister and the carpenter waking up in the same hospital ward. But, as Theobald points out, we do not have the conditions to make it possible...
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